diff --git a/packages/apps-electron/src/electron/index.ts b/packages/apps-electron/src/electron/index.ts
index 97cafb2a28..20d2983b77 100644
--- a/packages/apps-electron/src/electron/index.ts
+++ b/packages/apps-electron/src/electron/index.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 // of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
 
 import { app } from 'electron';
-import { features } from '../featureToggles';
 import { registerAccountStoreHandlers } from '../main/account-store';
 import { setupAutoUpdater } from './autoUpdater';
 import { createWindow } from './window';
@@ -13,10 +12,7 @@ const ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'production';
 const onReady = async () => {
   registerAccountStoreHandlers();
   await createWindow(ENV);
-
-  if (features.autoUpdater) {
-    await setupAutoUpdater();
-  }
+  await setupAutoUpdater();
 };
 
 app.whenReady().then(onReady).catch(console.error);
diff --git a/packages/apps-electron/src/featureToggles.ts b/packages/apps-electron/src/featureToggles.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 4385e07e50..0000000000
--- a/packages/apps-electron/src/featureToggles.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2017-2020 @polkadot/apps authors & contributors
-// This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
-// of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
-
-function getBoolEnv (env: string | undefined, fallback: boolean) {
-  return env ? (env) !== 'false' : fallback;
-}
-
-export const features = {
-  autoUpdater: getBoolEnv(process.env.POLKADOT_APPS_FEATURE_AUTOUPDATER, false)
-};